I am delighted to have been appointed as the Leverhulme Artist in residence at Newcastle University based in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.
Participation will be at the heart of the residency.
It is a delight to have time to experiment, to play and to ponder being a physical human!
I am excited, intrigued and at times overwhelmed by the possibilities. So many potential partnerships to explore, huge scope for participation and engagement.
So much of the departmental research centres on people, place and the politics of space .....all the things that matter most to me.......feels like home!
““ No map can show you, but you’re in every line”
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LATEST BLOG POSTS ON THE PROJECT
Invitational, conversational and heart warming research. The sharing of knowledge and experience - an everyday dance!
Exploring the geography of generations and the owning of knowledge through direct experience
A physical geographer on the make! Dr Maarten experiences clay from a different persepctive.
Parallel play - the particularities of placement. This is the third selected fragment from a durational loitering in a threshold space.
GGDC spending a fabulously enriching afternoon exploring the meaning and metaphor of clay…
Prepare is the second fragment of a durational movement response in and around The Big Table. Together apart space…
Near, nearer, nearest. Great start to our Near and Far project with considerations of where we are and what is nearest to us.
Exploring emotional geographies, ideas of home and belonging with children, parents, grandparents and the surrounding community.
Keeping our account in good order-inhabiting and owning research. Grand Gestures Dance Collective lead the way.
What lies beneath....a somatic approach to mapping and sharing experience, an exploratory body mapping workshop.
"Actually I've decided I'm coming back to study when I'm eighteen"
I have a particular interest in how we treat/respond to age and have a commitment to the creating and curating of mingling , moving opportunities between the generations.
I have been "walking with" the children of Marine Park Primary School in South Shields for 12 years. I experience walking as a way of waking; waking up to our full embodied selves, to noticing what's really real..... saying less and listening more.
A curiosity about fieldwork is a developing area of interest, what it means to me and what it means to geographers. To begin with the geography department itself was the place in which I conducted fieldwork, watching and listening
More experiments with everyday choreography.....joining , attuning, blending and celebrating...
Last week's activation/observation and contemplation of being present in a "passing" space was full of richness, synchronicity and exchanges......the poetry of everyday choreography.
The form, function and feeling of the lecture theatre.What "lecture" would our bodies give...how do we RE-MEMBER our physical selves in this place?
Being in a very large institution can be intriguing for one used to practicing mainly in community halls, hospital wards, day centres, classrooms, gardens and fields.
A plea for reflective practice. Just recently I have had a lot of researchers, academics, artists and students watching what I do and or asking about what I do and why...
Boxes, labels, language. Those of us who work in the field of dance and movement however are more than most put in a box "Twirlies, prancers or touchy feely types"....